Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
A Finely Drawn 1940s Modern Female Figure Study, Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Chicago, IL
A Finely Drawn, 1940s Modern Female Figure Study, Portrait of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exquisite studio portrait study, charcoal on...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nude of Woman - Marker Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1970
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is a violet marker Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1970.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little yellowed cardboard.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 19...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Mino Maccari (1898-...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Jab - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Jab is a black marker Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Conversation - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is a china ink drawing Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Alfred Bendiner, Baccaloni in Rosenkavalier
Located in New York, NY
The Italian opera singer, Salvatore Baccaloni (1900-1969) often took comic roles. He worked with several opera companies in Philadelphia between 1951 and 1966. Bendiner was a world t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Young Woman Reading - Original Drawing by Charles Guerin - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Young Woman Reading is an Original China Ink and Watercolour realized by Charles Guerin (1875-1939).
Good condition on a yellowed paper included a whit...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Countryside - Drawing by Jean Chapin- mid-20th Century
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
Countryside is a colored watercolor realized by Jean Chapin in the First Half 20th Century.
The artwork represents a colored landscape.
Good conditions except for some foxings.
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in Charcoal realized in the 20th Century by an anonymous artist. and signed "O. Rosai".
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Reclined Nude - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an original China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Monogrammed by the artist with pencil.
Mino Maccar...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Woman Folk-1 & 2, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works by Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Woman Folk-1 & 2
Pencil on Paper
5 x 3.4 inches
(Set of 2 Works)
(Framed & Delivered)
In this evocative pencil sketch, Bose captures a candid moment among a group of wom...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
The Girl - Pencil Drawing - Late 19th century.
Located in Roma, IT
The Girl is a drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by an Anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Pencil Drawing.
In good condition, aged margins.
The artwork is represented...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Women's Corner, Along the Cuyahoga River, Early 20th Century Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Women's Corner, Along the Cuyahoga River, c. 1916
Watercolor and graphite on paper
21 x 29 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Fakir-1 & 3, Figurative, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works by Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Fakir-1 & 3
Pencil on Paper
6 x 6 inches & 6.6 x 6 inches
(Set of 2 Works)
(Unframed & Delivered)
In this evocative sketch, Atul captures the weathered face and humble p...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Girl in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl in Profile
Lithographic crayon and watercolor on thin wove paper, c. 1930
Signed twice in pencil (see photos)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Edward Somme...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Man in the Mirror - Drawing by Jean-Luis Forain - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Man in the Mirror is a drawing on paper realized by Jean-Luis Forain in 1910.
Pencil drawing.
Monogrammed in pencil on the lower.
Good conditions.
Louis Henri Forain, known as Je...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mourning - Drawing by Jean-Luis Forain - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Mourning or is a drawing on paper realized by Jean-Luis Forain in the Late 19th Century.
Pencil drawing.
Monogrammed in pencil on the lower.
Good conditions.
Louis Henri Forain, ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch of Two Woman & Three Persons Sketch, Figurative, Drawing on Paper
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Badri Narayan - (Set of 2 Works)
Sketch of Two Woman
Drawing on Paper
7.75 x 8.25 inches
This delicate line drawing by Badri Narayan captures an intimate dialogue between two female...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Landscape - Drawing in Pencil on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
The State of preservation is very good with small tearing on the margins.
Sheet dimension: 47x32 cm
The artwork represents a scenery of trees and farm...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, Am. Legion)
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful watercolor on artist board study for an American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, American Legion) by Elaine Jeanne Glickman (Ginsburg), created...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Squatting Man-2 & 4, Figurative, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Squatting Man-2 & 4
Pencil on Paper
4.5 x 3.5 inches & 4.5 x 5.4 inches, 1943
(Set of 2 Works)
(Unframed & Delivered)
His poignant sketch captures the quiet vulnerabilit...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Man, Figurative, Pencil on Paper by Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Portrait of a Young Man
Pencil on Paper
8 x 6 inches, 1935
(Unframed & Delivered)
In this delicate pencil portrait, Atul renders the profile of a young man with remarkab...
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1730s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Indian Dancer - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Indian Dancer - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A stoic, dark-haired woman in elaborate dress is sitting cross-legged in this illustration by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999). Pattinson uses fine ink line detail and a vibrant pink watercolor for a splash of color.
Signed at the bottom, "Irene Pattinson."
Provenance: The Artist, Estate of Irene Pattinson: David Carlson; Estate of Larry Miller Fine Art, Robert Azensky Fine Art.
Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing.
Mat size: 16"H x 12"W
Paper size: 11.75"H x 8.5"W
Image size: 7.5"H x 6.5"W
Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999) studied at the California School of Fine Art (now The San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco State College and The Marion Hartwell School of Design. She was President of the San Francisco Woman Artists Association 1955-56.
Provenance: The Artist, Estate of Irene Pattinson: David Carlson; Estate of Larry Miller Fine Art, Robert Azensky Fine Art.
Solo Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery 1955; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961 (39 works).
Selected Group Exhibitions: San Francisco Art Association Annual 1948, 54, 55; San Francisco Woman Artists, 1957-1960; Oakland Art Museum Annual, 1951, 58; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960; Richmond Art Center, 1955, 56, 57, 58; San Francisco Art Institute 1959, 60. The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62, 63; Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Awards: First Place, San Francisco Woman Artists Assoc., 1957, 1959; San Francisco Art Festival 1957;Literature: San Francisco Art Institute - A catalog of the Art Ban 1962/63; San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection
Exhibitions:
1963 The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA
1963 California Palace of The Legion of Honor: Forth Winter Invitational, San Francisco, CA
1962 The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA
1961 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1960 California...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
The Tamer - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Tamer is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
$457 Sale Price
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Orgy - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Orgy is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Mother and Child - Drawing - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mother and Child is a drawing artwork realized by an Anonymous in the late 18th century
Two ink drawig with figures nn paper. with ntes.
The state of preservation is good with slig...
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1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Augustus Edwin John original watercolour drawing of cavemen, British
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This is one of a number of drawings that was accompanied by a signed letter from Augustus Edwin John which read as follows `Alderney Manor/ Nr Parkstone, Dorset / Dear Hodge, I send ...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Lady with Flower
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "E.JB." at lower right
21 7/8 x 17 inches including frame
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Box of Wonders - Drawing by Marguerite Babillot - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
The Box of Wonders is a drawing realized by Marguerite Babillot (1897-1970) in 1920s.
Not signed.
Good conditions.
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1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Double Sided Early Modern Black & White Figurative Pencil Drawing Study of Doris
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink
Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 20th Century
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
19 x 24 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gazing on Nude - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gazing on Nude is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
The artwork has been realized in ink and white lead on paper.
Good conditions and ag...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Paper
Fanciulla con il Cane - Drawing by Massimo Campigli - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
ink and watercolor on paper.
Prov. Locarno, Collection Nesto Jacometti; Rome Art Center.
Exhibitions:
- Pescara, 2002
Ref. Cat. Raisonné, Electa Editore, Milano 2023, n. 28/021, ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles".
Unsigned and undated. Matting included.
Very good conditions.
Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Leonard Baskin Watercolor Ink Illustration Painting Darkened Man, Nude with Bird
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) ink and gouache drawing on paper titled "Darkened Man", signed lower right, circa 1957.
Provenance: Grace Borgenicht gallery, Jeffrey M. Kaplan collection. bears label verso
Art: 31" H x 22" W; Frame: 36" H x 27" W.
Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960).
The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums.
The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin.
He was included in the MoMA show, Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism along with Alexander Archipenko, Francis Bacon, Balthus, Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Eugene Berman, Reg Butler, Lovis Corinth, Andre Derain, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Lucian Freud, George Grosz, Alexei Jawlensky, Oskar Kokoschka, Roberto Matta, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and more. In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond Casarella, Vincent Longo, and Nicholas Krushenick were frequent exhibitors. the gallery has represented many well-known artists, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Robert Blackburn, Lois Dodd, William King, Chaim and Dorothy Koppelman, Roy Lichtenstein, Harold Krisel...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of Benito Mussolini - Drawing by Alberto Manetti - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Duce Portrait is a modern artwork realized by the artist Alberto Manetti (known also as Brivido).
Pencil and charcoal on paper.
Hand signed on the higher right margin.
Inscription...
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1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Nude Woman - Pencil on Paper by André Meaux-Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original pencil drawing realized by André Meaux-Saint-Marc (1885 - 1941).
Pencil on brown paper in very good conditions.
Hand-signed on the lower left.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Nude signed Arno Breker
Located in Pasadena, CA
Arno Breker is an artist supported by the Nazi regime and a German sculptor whose neoclassical works meet the military aesthetic of the regime. Breker was ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Overboard... 1994. Paper, ink. 17x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Overboard...
1994. Paper, ink. 17x25 cm
Illustrated in the magazine "School and Family" in 1994.
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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A ca. 1928 Drawing of a Dapper Man with a Pint Glass by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1928 charcoal on paper drawing of a dapper man with a pint glass by artist Francis Chapin.
Image size: 12" x 9". Matted size: 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
View of Paris - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
View of Paris is an artwork realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Watercolor drawing on paper.
Good conditions.
The artwork is created through deft brushstokes and har...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dressing - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Dressing is a china ink drawing Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-R...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Nude Woman - Drawing by Jean Chapin- 1950s
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is a pencil and charcoal drawing realized by Jean Chapin in the 1950s.
Signature stamp on the yellowed paper.
Good condition, except for slight folding.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
1950's Signed Modernist Painting - Entrance Through To Cathedral
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cathedral Entrance
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso
original gouache/watercolour painting on artist paper
overall size: 26 x 23 inches
condition: very good a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
The Ruby R
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'The Ruby R', watercolor, c. 1990. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, on off-white watercolor paper; the image extending to the sheet edges....
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Recois-le Pour Amour du Ciel - Drawing by D. Delapierre - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and titled. Passepartout included. Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Personnage, Modern Crayon Drawing by Frantisek Kupka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871 -1957) - Personnage, Medium: Crayon on Paper, initaled lower right in pencil, Size: 8 x 3 in. (20.32 x 7.62 cm), Frame Size: 11.25 x 6.5 inches, Descr...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Figures Studies - China Ink Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Figures Studies" is an original China ink drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Marcel Vertès, most probably in 1930s.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Sheet dimension: 21 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude Woman - Pencil Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude woman is an artwork, pencil and charcoal on paper, realized by Albert Fernand-Renault. It Is not signed nor dated.
The artist depicts a portrait of a seated woman under an in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Girl - Original China Ink and Watercolor by Madeleine Scellier - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Girl is an original drawing in watercolored china ink on ivory-colored paper realized by the French artist Madeleine Scellier (1928).
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin.
The...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Country Scene - Drawing by Suzanne Tourte - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Country scene is an artwork realized by Suzanne Tourte, in 1940s.
Pen and pencil on paper.
artist's stamp on the left side.
20 x 24 cm.
Good cond...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Pencil
Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1965
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1965.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, J...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lovers and Pilgrim - Original ink drawing, Handsigned
By Miguel Conde
Located in Paris, IDF
Miguel CONDE (1939-)
Lovers and Pilgrim, 1993
Original India ink drawing
Signed bottom left
On vellum 50 x 67 cm (c. 20 x 27 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Abstract Composition - Original Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original artwork realized in the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored pastel on paper.
Unreadable signature of the artist on lower margin.
Includes gilded fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Composition- Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Drawing in Watercolor.
The artwork is in good conditions .
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident strok...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Figure of Woman - Drawing by Achille Devéria - Early 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Woman is a Pencil Drawing realized by Achille Deveria (1800-1857).
Good condition on a little paper included a blue cardboard passpartout (31.5x24.5 cm).
Signature on pla...
Category
Early 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude, 1959, Ink and Watercolor, Figure, Mid-Century, American
By Knox Martin
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1923, Knox Martin moved with his family to New York City in 1927. He attended The Art Students League of New York from 1946 to 1950 under the GI Bil...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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